Dunnabridge Pound
A medieval livestock enclosure on open moorland, where Dartmoor farmers once penned straying animals.
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A medieval livestock enclosure on open moorland, where Dartmoor farmers once penned straying animals.
Lower Dunstone, Ashburton
A modest medieval wayside cross standing on the open moor, marking an old route across Dartmoor.
An early Christian inscribed stone of about AD 550, a granite pillar 1.75 m high reading DAPANNICI NASC FI, perhaps 'the stone of Dapannicius, son of Nascus', near Uphill farmhouse.
A grade II* listed farmhouse on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.
A round cairn, 26 m across and 3.5 m high, on the north-east side of Quickbeam Hill, a Forest bound in 1240, 1609 and 1796.
Bronze Age settlement of ten stone structures on the open moor south of Leeden Tor.
Meldon, Okehampton
Crumbling stone foundations and weathered walls marking an ambitious attempt to bring electricity to remote Dartmoor.
An oval enclosure up to 40 m by 25 m with a hut circle inside and another outside, joined by a short wall, above the Plym valley south-east of Brisworthy.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The only thing that brought us home on long summer evenings was the ring of a handbell by Mum standing at the field gate calling us in for supper.”
Also on Our DartmoorShilstone Tor — A modest tor on Shilstone Hill with views east towards Mid Devon and the 'eastern highlands'.